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...hypocrisies by Dave Chappelle, Dead Prez, Talib Kwali and Mos Def. Particularly stirring is an interview with Notorious B.I.G. collaborator Lil’ Cease, a recounting of the F.B.I.’s murder of Fred Hampton Jr.’s father, and pleas for convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Fortunately, the artists are such gifted, energetic entertainers that their messages can be absorbed as part of the positive entertainment experience, without losing their potency.This is definitely tied to the fascinating dichotomy of Chappelle’s angry material and his clearly good nature. There?...
...Square, the crowded display window of Revolution Books lies snuggled just between the Clayroom and A Taste of Culture. Many leftist and radical faces have been featured in this window over the past two decades of the independent bookstore’s life—including Karl Marx to Mumia Abu Jamal...
...ethereal flute and keys over violins and a crunchy boom-bip. MC Zion particularly shines on “Dune,” a haunting proclamation of socio-political apocalypse. The song’s chorus finds some hope among all the despair: “Cadillac, prison guards, Mumia behind bars / We in charge, live for God, no matter how hard...
...book about sex and real estate, or Alan Dershowitz, who took time off to defend O.J. Simpson and Mike Tyson), his relentless pursuit of celebrity and insatiable appetite for publicity sets him apart from the field—look at Friends of Cornel like P. Diddy and Mumia Abu-Jamal. That Summers chose to begin cleaning house with West might have been ham-handed and politically inept, but it wasn’t inconsistent or, God help us, racist...
...what of it? Surely we can forgive the professor’s preference for working on projects like cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal’s prison meditations (1997’s Death Blossoms). After all, Cornel West is a genius—“one of the most preeminent minds of our time,” according to cornelwest.com, with a “deep grasp of a multitude of subject matter.” True, his writings, like those of any great man, occasionally inspire carping from West’s political enemies (jealous fellow professors...